Ballots Due by 8 pm Today in Portland City Council Special Election

The race to replace the late Nick Fish pits Loretta Smith against Dan Ryan.

Ballot drop-off on May 19, 2020. (Motoya Nakamura / Multnomah County)
By Nigel Jaquiss

The special Portland City Council runoff election to fill the remainder of the late Commissioner Nick Fish's term will be decided tonight.

The race to replace Fish is the only item on the ballot. It pits Loretta Smith, a former two-term Multnomah County commissioner, against Dan Ryan, the former executive director of the education nonprofit All Hands Raised.

WW endorsed Ryan in the race.

Ballots must be dropped off at the Multomah County Elections Office or an official drop-off site by 8 pm today in order to be counted. Here's where to take your ballot.

As of late morning, as John Horvick of the Portland polling firm DHM Research noted on Twitter, 33% of registered voters in the city had turned in their ballots, a somewhat surprisingly strong showing for an off-cycle special election in the middle of a chaotic summer.

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